7 Year Anniversary

 Seven years!! I can't believe it. Seven years I have been married to this amazing man that I love so much. I am so happy that he is my best friend and I love being able to spend my life with him!

I got Eva to take a picture of us after we got home from our anniversary date. I am almost 30 weeks pregnant in that picture.

 

 

Eva turned 5!!!

I cannot believe my little baby girl is five! Eva is such a blessing to us. She likes to make us laugh, be silly, play with her horses, watch movies, color, cuddle up with her dad, and help her mom in the kitchen.

Eva is very smart! She has been doing preschool (with her awesome teacher, Danielle) and has just learned so much in the few months Danielle has been working with her. Eva can count to 100 in single digits and by tens. She has learned just about every letter in the alphabet (how to write it upper and lowercase, what sounds it makes, what words it goes in, etc.). She can even read some small words! She loves to learn.

We are so blessed to have her and love her so much!!

 Eva wanted a pony cake for her birthday. After showing her several pictures of cakes on the computer, she decided she wanted to put some of her ponies on the cake, so this is it! She loved it!

 Eva wanted a "unicorn pegasus" for her birthday. Luckily, I found that My Little Pony actually has one...apparently a unicorn with wings is not a common thing. We found this "Pin the Horn on the Unicorn" game to play at her party.

 I think she peeked!!

 Grandma Anderson was able to make it over for the party. She gave Eva those super cute John Deere pajamas and lots of other great stuff!

 This is Danielle (our friend, our babysitter, Eva's teacher, and my sister-in-laws sister), and her husband Octavio, and their baby Caroline. Eva was so excited for the coloring books they got for her birthday!

Aunt Debora, Uncle Gary, and Micah got to come over for the party, too. We were so glad!! We miss seeing Mimi every day!

Boston

In November I went to some training for work in Boston. Brian was busy with school, so I asked my parents if they wanted to go. I ended up having my mom, dad, nephew, and niece come with me! It was so much fun!! They got to go see alot of sites while I was in my classes, but I got to see a few, too. Thank you so much for coming!! Hope you all had a good time!

And, thank you Jeff and Megan for letting Eva and Ely come over while I was gone!

 Dad, Lindsay, Abby, Colton, Mom on the boat ride across Boston Harbor.

 Lindsay and Abby on the Freedom Trail.

 Dad, Colton, Abby, and Mom by the Paul Revere statue. We went to Paul Revere's house just before this.

 Dad and Lindsay on the subway. By the end of the week, Mom had the whole transportation system figured out...we had some adventures in the beginning, though :)

Lindsay and Mom on the bridge over the harbor.

Just Cuz Half Marathon

Yesterday I did the Just Cuz Half Marathon! It was so great!! The weather was perfect (way better than last year)! My friend Kim ran it with me. It took us 2 hours and 35 minutes. I did way better than I thought I would, being 6 months (24 weeks) pregnant. And, Kim did awesome for her first race ever! My legs are pretty sore today, but I have no regrets! :)

Brian brought the kids to cheer us in at the finish line...if I can figure out how to load the video, I will; it's pretty cute.

Anyone want to run it next year???!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Hope you all had a fun Halloween!

 Brian helped the kids carve their pumpkins. They turned out pretty cute!

I brought the kids into the police department to trick or treat and show off how cute they are!! And we went to a couple houses Halloween night.

Ely could have cared less about the whole concept of dressing up for Halloween, so we figured we would just him something he thought was fun. Brian found him some armor and a little sword/knife at the dollar store and Ely loved it! He just walked around saying "fight" the whole time he had it on. He is such a boy!

Eva was a very cute baby leopard. She walked around the police department snarling at people. I dressed up as a Palagi (pronounced palangi), which is what Polynesians call white people. It was fun...I mean, what pregnant woman doesn't want to walk around in a muu muu and sandals all day!!

Ely in the beets

We went to my parents last weekend and went out to help my dad a bit with the sugar beet harvest. Here is Ely in the field. He just went and sat down right there in the middle of the beets while Dad and Grandpa were fixing the beet digger. Ely loves to go out on the tractor (or anywhere) with Grandpa, whom he calls "Pop." He just loves him! It is cute. When we came home Sunday morning, Ely just wanted to stay there with Pop!!

Ultrasound Pictures!!

We had an ultrasound this week and got to see our beautiful baby!! It was so fun. The baby was moving around a lot. Everything looked great. And, no, we did not find out if it was a boy or a girl. I want to wait for the surprise in February. Brian wanted to find out, but the ultrasound tech tried to avoid it so he couldn't figure it out!

 The profile.

 Waving hello!

 Check out the muscles on that leg!

Precious little feet.